ZIPAUDIO CD PLAYER HELP

This button minimizes the player to the task bar. To restore the player to the desktop click on the application button on the task bar or use ALT-TAB.

HELP Button

Displays this interactive help file on your default browser.

ABOUT Button

This button displays the About dialog box. This box has a link to the ZipAudio webpage that you can visit to order the full player version, or to get more information and latest updates.

PLAY Button

Click the PLAY button to play the first track in the playlist if the current MODE is SINGLE or LOOP. If the current MODE is SHUFFLE or LOOP SHUFFLE a random track will play.

PAUSE Button

Click the pause button to suspend the current track. The track will remain suspended until the PAUSE button is clicked once more.

STOP Button

Click this button to stop playing the current track. To resume playing click on the PLAY button.

REWIND Button

Click and hold this button if you want to rewind the current track. Release the REWIND button when you reach the time that you want to replay from. Rewind stops when the time reaches zero. Click and release this button if you want to go to the previous track in the playlist.

FORWARD Button

Click and hold this button if you want to fastforward the current track. Release the FORWARD button when you reach the time that you want to play from. Forward stops when the time reaches the end of the track. When the FORWARD button is released the player will start playing the current track at the time registered by the player time. Click and release this button if you want to go to the next track in the playlist.

VOLUME buttons

Click on the plus (+) button to adjust the volume up or click on the minus (-) button to adjust the volume down. The volume level temporarily replaces the mode and indicator on the display window. It disappears after you have finished adjusting the volume.

EJECT Button	Click this button to eject a CD that is in the CD Tray, or, click this button to eject the CD Tray in order to insert a CD.
FORMAT Button	Click this button to alternate between the ZipAudio CD Player and the ZipAudio MP3/Wave Player. Be sure to save any currrent playlists before switching. You will not be prompted to save. We strongly suggest that you STOP the current player before switching to the other player.
MODE Button	Click this button to select how you want to play the titles in the playlist:
SINGLE	Titles play consecutively to the end of the playlist.
LOOP	Titles play consecutively until the STOP button is pressed.
SHUFFLE	Titles play in random order until all titles in playlist have played once.
LOOP SHUFFLE	Titles play in random order until the STOP button is pressed.

PLAYLIST Button	This button displays the CD PlayList and the CD Extractor dialog box.

Album, Artist, Year, Genre, Comments:

Enter information about the CD that you are sampling so that it can be saved in the CDDB for future refence. This information will be pulled up the next time the exact same CD is put into the CD Drive.

Playlist Selection:

Each track can be renamed by double clicking on track number (Track01, Track02, etc). To select a track to play click the box to the left of the track name to add a check mark.

The AUDITION button allows you to sample a selected track. This is only possible if a track is NOT currently being played. If a track is already being played from the playlist the AUDITION button is disabled.

If anything is changed in the playlist, on exiting the CD Playlist dialog box, a reminder will ask if you would like to save changes before exiting the playlist.

Track Information:

The tracks available to be extracted (ripped) from the CD depends on which tracks are selected in the playlist.

Click on a track title to encode and check the Encode to MP3 option. Once this option is selected the Delete wave file after encode option, BitRate, Sample Rate, and Encode to Path options are available. You can specify each option.

Delete wave file after encode:

To encode an MP3 the track is first extracted from the CD and saved as a wave file. You can

choose not to delete this file after the track encoding has completed in order to compare the sound quality of the two files.

BitRate:

Choose the bitrate that you would like to encode the selected file at. The higher the bitrate the better the quality of the encoded file. Keep in mind that a higher bitrate will also take longer and will

require more CPU to encode the track.

Sample Rate:

Choose the sample rate that you would like to encode the selected file at. Typical sample rates are: 11,000 Hz (telephone quality), 22,000 Hz (radio quality), 44,000 Hz (CD quality). The higher the sample rate the better the quality of the encoded file. Keep in mind that a higher sample rate will create a larger encoded file.

Encode to Path:

A default path is already set in the options. If you want to change the path that you want your MP3-encoded file to be stored to, simply type in the full path.

Rip to Path:

A default path is already set in the options. If you want to change the path that you want your wave file to be stored to, simply type in the full path.

RIP Button

Click this button to begin the extraction (ripping) process.

STOP RIPPING Button

Click this button at any time during the ripping process if you want to terminate the CD ripping job.

Ripping Track, Completion, Time Lapsed displays which track is being ripped/encoded, how much of the track is already ripped, and how much time it is taking to rip.

DISPLAY WINDOW

	Click on a track number to play it. If a track is currently playing the new track will interrupt it. Scroll left and right to see all tracks available on the current CD in the CD Drive. Tracks selected in the playlist are displayed as lit. To modify the track selection click on the playlist button to choose. The current track being played is displayed as a blinking number.
	Displays the title of the current track. If no track information is entered in the playlist it displays as "Track01" for track number 1, "Track02" for track number 2, etc.
	Displays the name of the artist for the current track. If no information is entered in the playlist it displays as "Artist Name".
	Displays the number of the current track
	Displays the current track time that has elapsed.
	Displays the total playlist time.
	Displays the play mode selected with the MODE button. Single mode plays each track in the playlist sequentially. Loop mode plays the entire playlist continuously until the STOP button is pressed. Shuffle mode plays all the tracks in the playlist in random order until all the tracks have played once. Shuffle Loop mode plays all the tracks in the playlist continuously, in random order, until the STOP button is pressed.
	Displays whether the current action is PLAY, PAUSE, REWIND, or FORWARD.